<p>I have read most of the comments in this thread and since the beginning, I have paid attention to what lbftw has said and it has made a lot of sense to me and none of it has struck me as being overly negative. (I am a parent if that is not clear from my handle). My daughter in her first year of BS has noticed many of the things he has written about – she reports of the ‘in-group’ as being legacy kids. She knows who has hooked up with whom, and so does everyone else apparently. She also loves school, has friends, is participating in lots of activities, and I think is keeping her nose very clean. In other words, being VERY MUCH the same kid she was before BS. So I guess what I will say is this: you take yourself to BS and other people take themselves and BS does not transform you and them into something different than they were back home. If you are a confident, well-adjusted go-getter kind of a kid, the various dramas of popularity, money, mischief, influence etc at BS (for they surely exist at BS as at any other school) will be obvious to you but should not be anything more than an interesting thing to talk about with your roommate. There is a place at BS for unconnected smart happy kids. They LOVE those kinds of kids! I have heard nothing but raves from all my kid’s teachers and coaches so far and my kid is telling me she loves it and wants to go back, for sure.</p>
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